Hedberg is known as a probing satirist of the middle class and conventional world in general.

His works of the 1940s entail a search for religious and moral values.

[1] Bekänna färg (Show one’s hand), published in 1947, is considered to be one of his most important novels from this period.

Hedberg committed suicide 1974, a few weeks after his daughter Birgitta succumbed to a sudden illness.

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